One of the girls' parents had a policy turning off the family's Wi-Fi at 10pm.

Two California teenagers were arrested on New Year’s Eve after allegedly spiking one of their parents’ milkshakes with sleeping medication. The girls did this, the local police said, because one girl felt her parents’ Internet curfew was too strict. The parents apparently restricted access to the family’s wireless Internet connection after 10pm.

“The unsuspecting parents consumed only about a quarter of their shakes thinking that they tasted very odd,” the police in Rocklin, California (22 miles northeast of the state capital, Sacramento) reported.

“However, they consumed enough of the medicine for it to take effect within an hour and fell asleep. The parents did not awake until the following morning and did not remember what had occurred.”

Police told the Sacramento Bee that after waking once during the night with headaches and grogginess that persisted until morning, the adults went to the police to get a $5 drug test kit.

"Many parents buy them and have their kids' urine tested," Lt. Lon Milka, a Rocklin police spokesperson, told the paper. When the parents found out they had been drugged, they alerted the police, who promptly arrested the teens on charges of conspiracy and willfully mingling a pharmaceutical with food.

The names of the 15- and 16-year-old girls—who were booked in Placer County Juvenile Hall on December 31, 2012—are being withheld as they are minors.

"The girls wanted to use the Internet, and they'd go to whatever means they had to," Milka added. "If they were adults, they could be facing prison time.”

Good job, parents. There is a penalty for deliberate disobedience, and not many are enforcing it anymore.

No, it's punishment for spiking their drinks with fucking poison. Remember where it said they only had 1/4th of their drink? and they stopped because it tasted weird? then woke up in the morning groggy and couldn't remember anything?

One wonders what kind of parenting went into raising a daughter who felt that this was somehow acceptable behavior.

The same kind of parenting that had a 10pm internet curfew?

I mean, I would rather my kids be at home on FB and Twitter and YouTube than doing something else. At age 15 and 16 they are old enough for cell phones with data plans, too, so the internet curfew seems even stranger.

You know, I have an 11 o'clock internet curfew that is dependent on my grades. For every A I have in a course they add 30 extra minutes to the time limit, for every B nothing happens and a C results in a 30 minute time deduction. Just gonna push that out there since it seems relevant. By the way, I am a junior in high school not a college student living out of my parent's basement.

I remember my parents had the restriction of 1 hour / day of internet since we had only one phone line; so I just went behind their back, bought my own modem and signed up for my own internet service. I faked my age of course, but the parents never knew for 2+ years... until I told them.

all kidding aside, i'm a little surprised by the reaction re: the internet curfew. when i was a kid, my parents knew what video games i was playing, what tv i was watching, music i was listening to, etc. i wouldn't call them invasive, lee isn't wrong most kids aren't very good at hiding shit. if you tried and failed (or succeeded) in getting into trouble, you know it when you see it when you're older. yeah i was PISSED when i got that C in school that reduced my Nintendo time until I brought it up (which was bullshit by the way! i mean FFVI was just released on the supernes!), but being a parent isn't easy, it means being a bit of a narc and a dick. when your kid turns 22 they'll probably thank you for it.

unless you drug your parents. then they might kick your ass out of the house.

I don't see why the parents would enforce it on a non-school night. Does it really matter if the kids want to stay up late on New Year's Eve looking at whatever teen girls look at?

And yes, I'm ignoring the horrible thing they did to their parents. Don't ask why that's the first question I ask myself.

*edit* read it wrong, they were booked on Dec 31. But still, why have a curfew over holiday break?

Because rules are there for a reason, and even over vacation they should be enforced?If you have the kind of kids dumb enough to do this, you have the kind of kids who need their internet access restricted.

I can't help thinking that the teens dodged a major problem. Consider the potential charges if one of the parents had needed to drive somewhere and there was an accident.

And if a quarter of the drink sent them to sleep, what would the full glass have done to them? This was prescription medication of unknown strength. Some medications will not not have major consequences for an overdose. But some certainly will, particularly if one of the parents decided to have some beer/wine to get rid of the aftertaste of the milkshake.

Then there's the possibility of drug interactions if either of the parents were taking other drugs. Or a parent being allergic to the drug.

I don't see why the parents would enforce it on a non-school night. Does it really matter if the kids want to stay up late on New Year's Eve looking at whatever teen girls look at?

And yes, I'm ignoring the horrible thing they did to their parents. Don't ask why that's the first question I ask myself.

*edit* read it wrong, they were booked on Dec 31. But still, why have a curfew over holiday break?

Because rules are there for a reason, and even over vacation they should be enforced?If you have the kind of kids dumb enough to do this, you have the kind of kids who need their internet access restricted.

That is the only best guess I have, I just don't know why they didn't merely have a bedtime curfew instead of just an internet one.

Perhaps it is there to teach the kids that you cannot just stay up all night online and still be a productive individual in the morning. Just because you can, does not mean it is wise to do so.

Perhaps it is because the parents care enough to be concerned about the creeps that troll chat forums.

Perhaps it is something those teens brought upon themselves by their actions (grades, poor choices, etc).

Perhaps it is just because the adults work and pay for the internet connection and get to decide how/when it is used in their house. (At least that was the message I generally got in regards to internet (modem) time, car usage, and just about anything else my parents provided me.)

Lots of things seem like good ideas when you're a teenager. This is because teenagers are stupid.

You could have said teenage girls, but it seems that you're selective in your stereotyping...

Just like you seem sexist in yours.

Way to miss the point.

You lamented he was being "selective" in his stereotyping, so you took his "selection" and cut it arbitrarily in half, declaring that teen boys aren't stupid, but man, those teen girls are fucking idiots, amirite?

Even ignoring the vomit worthy sexism of your post, you still have no coherent point.

Lots of things seem like good ideas when you're a teenager. This is because teenagers are stupid.

You could have said teenage girls, but it seems that you're selective in your stereotyping...

Just like you seem sexist in yours.

Way to miss the point.

You lamented he was being "selective" in his stereotyping, so you took his "selection" and cut it arbitrarily in half, declaring that teen boys aren't stupid, but man, those teen girls are fucking idiots, amirite?

Even ignoring the vomit worthy sexism of your post, you still have no coherent point.

I think he was referring to the girls in this article in particular, though I might be wrong.